Scientists have demonstrated a new material that conducts heat 150% more efficiently than conventional materials used in advanced chip technologies. The devicean ultrathin silicon nanowirecould ena… [+9146 chars]
If youre one of a few people fortunate enough to be able to afford a $55 million ticket to space, the odds are that youre not much accustomed to hard labor. Members of the all-private crew to the Int… [+3062 chars]
Einstein's theory of special relativity teaches us that time is relative. But what does it mean for time to be relative? How can we live in a universe where nobody can agree on when events start, whe… [+5276 chars]
The big astronomy story of last week was the release of a photo of Sagitarrius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. It’s a big bugger, estimated to have a mass of four mill… [+681 chars]
Compact and lightweight metasurfaceswhich use specifically designed and patterned nanostructures on a flat surface to focus, shape and control lightare a promising technology for wearable application… [+4479 chars]
If you're up high, and you listen carefully on nights when the northern sky dances with blazing sheets of green light Earth's spectacular aurora borealis you might hear some ghostly sounds. Almost i… [+3766 chars]
What does a modern combine harvester and a Diplodocus have in common? One answer, it seems, may be their big footprints on the soil. A new study led by researchers from Sweden and Switzerland has fou… [+5633 chars]
A seasonal imbalance in the amount of solar energy absorbed and released by the planet Mars is a likely cause of the dust storms that have long intrigued observers, a team of researchers reports. Ma… [+4513 chars]
It was recently reported that astronauts of the International Space Station’s all-private personnel complained about their travel to low Earth orbit, arguing that they had far too many tasks to compl… [+1689 chars]
If you're up high, and you listen carefully on nights when the northern sky dances with blazing sheets of green light Earth's spectacular aurora borealis you might hear some ghostly sounds. Almost i… [+3766 chars]
Insects have complex anatomical features due to which the process of gene editing in many insect species like cockroaches has always been tricky for scientists. But a study recently published in the … [+4790 chars]
In late April, Perseverance and Ingenuity arrived at the edge of Jezero Crater’s ancient river delta — an area of the crater that was likely once formed by flowing water, and a major focus of the Mar… [+10864 chars]
